Final Fantasy VII All Story Playthrough Part 3 - Sephiroth & The End of the World

Time Stamps (Segments/names pulled from bover_87 GameFAQs)

0:00:00 Journey through the Snow Fields
0:45:26 Escaping Captivity
1:09:36 Searching for Cloud
1:18:51 Quest for the Huge Materia (Part 1)
1:36:23 Chaos in the Lifestream
2:09:58 Tifa's Piano
2:12:02 Vincent's Cave
2:15:45 Memories from the Basement
2:21:15 Quest for the Huge Materia (Part 2)
3:01:20 Searching for Answers
3:29:35 Midgar Raid
4:03:54 Nanaki's Farewell
4:06:30 The Northern Crater
4:14:25 Sephiroth
4:30:45 Ending Movie
4:39:40 Credits
4:46:30 "Secret" Post-Credits Scene

DESCRIPTION:

What is this "Story + Side-Story Focused Playthrough?"

Is it meant to be a playthrough of the game showing off my elite gamer skill? Absolutely not.
Is it a longplay of the game where I only do the main story quest? Sort of, but not entirely.

Rather, I've found Final Fantasy VII to be a hard pill for a lot of people to swallow, due to just not being able to get into a 50 hour RPG experience with turn based combat and random encounters. Even with everything Square has done with remasters to ease this experience, it still can be a problem for some people. So I've made this for people to be able to "watch" Final Fantasy VII in a streamlined manner.

As such:
-There is no commentary.
-All random encounters have been removed.
-Most running around has been cut.
-Primarily sticks to the main storyline and sidequests with large story or important lore like Wutai, Vincent's Cave, Gongaga
-This is the Switch version, so it features HD visuals and some fixed grammatical issues.
-A New Game+ save was used to streamline the creation of this project.
There are some NPC dialogue I encountered that is kept if they add to the story/characterization/world building. They don't tend to add much to the runtime anyway.
Lastly, I've kept most story-mandated battles, including small enemies, to keep the story consistent. If these don't float your boat, thankfully YouTube has a handy skip forward button.

There are some things I wish I had done differently (for example, certain bosses died faster than I expected and became somewhat anticlimactic), but hopefully this is good enough for those wanting to catch up on the original story.

This playthrough is split into three main parts:

"Midgar & Shinra Inc." covers the Midgar section of Disc 1.
"Jenova & The Ancients" covers the rest of Disc 1.
"Sephiroth & The End of the World" covers Disc 2 and 3 (the rest of the game).

There are time stamps in the description of each video to pinpoint more specific segments of the game, which will hopefully serve as useful bookmarks.

Thank you for watching. I hope this will be a useful tool for those wanting to experience the original Final Fantasy VII story!